"Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead……" — Johann Georg Hamann

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• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
• Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are… — Gerry Adams
• I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.… — Joyce Carol Oates
• Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God,… — Unknown Author
• My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations.… — Bobby Sands
• Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic… — Andrew Weil
• Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like… — Haroon Siddiqui
• L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a… — Nicolas Berggruen
• We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make… — Larry Crabb
• One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it;… — Diana Vreeland
• I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up… — Ian Hart
• The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique… — Sri Yukteswar Giri

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